Re: [RESEND] Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-08-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! On Monday 04 August 2008, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Aug 3, 2008, at 05:19, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hmmm... that's interesting. Sounds useful. Is it supported in search.cpan.org/kobesearch yet? Of course, I'd also like to have Freshmeat-like categories: http://freshmeat.net/browse/18/

Re: [RESEND] Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-08-03 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Aug 2, 2008, at 13:40, David E. Wheeler wrote: 2. Not capabale of being manipulated by an external program - Only perl can understand Perl, etc.. It looks like M::B does not current put the keywords into the META.yml file when you run `make distmeta`. It ought to. Actually, I was

Re: [RESEND] Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-08-03 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Aug 3, 2008, at 05:19, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hmmm... that's interesting. Sounds useful. Is it supported in search.cpan.org/kobesearch yet? Of course, I'd also like to have Freshmeat-like categories: http://freshmeat.net/browse/18/ You would need to get them into the META spec, I think.

Re: [RESEND] Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-08-03 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Aug 2, 2008, at 07:17, Shlomi Fish wrote: http://xrl.us/bi6n9 (link to svn.berlios.de) is a functional spec for a way to tag and classify CPAN modules. Those tags and catgories should end up in the META.yml. However, inserting them by hand by editing the Build.PL will be: You are

Re: [RESEND] Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-08-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David E. Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-04 02:40]: (Oh, and BTW, Adam Kennedy put the lie to only Perl can parse Perl myth.) No, he did not. PPI works for a large and interesting class of Perl code, but if you consider all possible valid Perl code files that do something useful, it

[RESEND] Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-08-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi, I'm re-sending this message that I sent back in 10-April and which amounted to very little, this time to the module-build mailing list too. See this link for the original message: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2008/04/msg6419.html --- http://xrl.us/bi6n9

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Guy! I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but I found your message hard to follow. You often broken my paragraphs or even my sentences in half, lost a lot of yours and mine's original context, etc. But I'll try to do the best I can. On Thursday 10 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Thu,

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope it's not much of a flamewar so far, but it sure seems to have escalated into a minor one. You are a Nazi![1] - oops! Regards, Shlomi Fish [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law I am really

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 14:59 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Guy! I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but I found your message hard to follow. You often broken my paragraphs or even my sentences in half, lost a lot of yours and mine's original context, etc. But I'll try to do the best I

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 15:48 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law I am really sick of this game with Godwin's law. I think he was joking and I was not offended. -- --gh

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 11 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 15:48 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law I am really sick of this game with Godwin's law. I think he was joking and I was not offended. Yes, this was a joke. Though I sometimes use

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! Sorry for the late response. On Friday 11 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 14:59 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Guy! I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but I found your message hard to follow. You often broken my paragraphs or even my sentences in half, lost

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 17:56 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: This is the first relevent one (subject changed and later in the new thread) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2008/04/msg6404.html From what I can understand it reads data from META.yml and other sources like

Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi, http://xrl.us/bi6n9 (link to svn.berlios.de) is a functional spec for a way to tag and classify CPAN modules. Those tags and catgories should end up in the META.yml. However, inserting them by hand by editing the Build.PL will be: 1. Error-prone. 2. Not capabale of being manipulated by an

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-10 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2008-10-04 at 19:48 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: And if anyone has a preference for the location of the data file or files (or __DATA__) - voice his opinion now.[1] This approach only works for new modules. Did you look at the stuff Jonathan Rockway advertised here:

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-04 at 19:48 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: And if anyone has a preference for the location of the data file or files (or __DATA__) - voice his opinion now.[1] This approach only works for new modules. Depends what you mean by new.